The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-22
WHY MEN HATE WOMEN.

WHY MEN HATE WOMEN.
m-Tempered Assertions Concerning the
Conduct of Women Under Var
ious Circumstances.
AT the first glance this may seem
somewhat startling question to ask. so
much so that the spontaneous reply
would be: but men do not hate wo-
men," That is precisely where the fall
lacy is Ii lies in the assumption that
because poets have said finer things
about women than about anything else;
because woman is toasted with enthu-
,iastic cheers at millions of banQuets
during every twelve-month; and be-
cause the days of courtship are the
sweetest in a mans life; it lies in the
assumption that because of these things
man who hates women is monstros-
ity who ought to be exiled from the
earth. But meanwhile the fact is that
there are plenty of men who hate wo-
men without hating woman. The fero-
city of the husband who comes home
Qrom business) at o'clock in the
morning. and finds his wife placidly
sitting up for him, may not find express
sion in audible language. but it has the
concentrated force of cyclone and the
condensed fury of n suppressed earth
quake. He goes to bed hating that wife
whom he has sworn to love. protect,
and cherish The more unconscious
she seems of her delinquency the fiercer
does his anger burn. He knows that
the silent martyrdom she is thus dis
playing is merely trick by which n
repulse is dIsguisedly implied. II she
wept or tore her hair. or called him
bad names, or slammed down the novel
she had been reading. then he might
challenge her to mortal combat and
engage in that connubial duel whose
expletives are known in all their extent
only when it eliminates in the publi-
city of the divorce court But this
silent sitting up. this gentle, voiceless
aspect of having ones life gradually
worn away by the conduct of debauch-
ed consort, is what no husband. how
ever well regulated he may be. can
stand-at O'Clock in the morningi
What is the reason that all our car
conductors hate all women? If you
think the case is too strongly stated.
ask any car conductor who can spare
time to answer, and he will inform you
that it is the women passengers. and
not the males, who make his existence
a burden and a terror. He never feels
safe while woman is getting into or
out of the car. She rushes with such
impetuosity that if the car retains ever
so little motion as she descends from it
sne runs the risk of being thrown off
her feet, her stupidity never having al
lowed her to perceive that tho front and
not the back handle must be used in
order that the body may respond to the
vehicles motion Or. if impetuosity is
not her forte, deliberation is, and she
makes her exit with Siddonian slowness
in spite of the conductors exhortatIon:
.Step lively. madame" If she gets in
at the Astor House she Immediately
asks to be let out at Eifty-seventh street
Ii the car is full she posts herself against
the entrance, blockading the passage.
Hurried and fluttered, the conductor
waits for her fare, and instead of hand
ing him dime and taking change like
a creature endowed with reason, she
slowly pokes out five individual cents
from the depths of her blind alley of a
purse. These are few of the reasons
why conductors hate women; but many
more remain.
Why DO businessmen hate womenP
Because, as a rule, women do not know
They come at the wrong time, they say
the wrong things, and they stay too
long. After the business they ostensibly
came for is transacted they chatter
about an infinity of nothing, wearying
the soul of the businessman who is too
polite or weak-minded to get rid of
them. If woman goes to post-office
window to ask more than the most ordi-
tn II
more than to buy a stamp, she either
expects that everybody should make
way for her in the queue Gf there is
one) or she ignores the existence of
other applicants, plants herself on the
wrong side of the window, and secures
attention, to the prejudice of first com
ers. The way in which women behave
at the box-oflice windows OF theaters is
notorious. Ii is said that the official
who sells seats for matinees is not kept
in the same position long. Ii he is he
dies, so the rule of rotation is kindly
worked in his favor and that of his CO.
mates in order that they may live and
not die. Such unhappy beings. men in
spite of this proviso. would be literally
pestered to death if they did not con-
tinually brace themselves to answer
thousands of silly and superfluous ques-
tions with sententious civility.
Why do men who go TO the theater
hate women? Because the latter wear
hats which are an outrage upon the
persons who SIT behind them, and an
evidence of the wearers' want of good
breeding. right feeling, and true polite
ness. A woman has no more right to
wear at the theater a hat which blocks
up the view that a man has right to
wear his hat. All women who do SO are
simply nuisances, and the very man
who takes to the theater a woman
wearing such head-gear confesses in
his heart that he is ashamed of her, un-
less he happens to be in love with her.
This article might be prolonged to
ten times its present length, and an
other equally long might be written
showing why women hate women, an
asserting fact equally uncontrovertible.
But we prefer to put the case briefly,
acknowledging that here and there
woman may be found so free from the
ordinary faults of the sex that she COM
pels admiration, esteem. and affection
wherever she moves. When a man
finds such a woman, if he be the right
sort of man, he treasures her in his
memory if he meets her but once, and
he makes his heart the shrine where
she is continually reverenced should he
have the good fortune to pass his life in
her society.-The Hour.